c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before." — Ron Silver
"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza." — Robert Indiana
"I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture." — Rachel Bilson
"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone." — Tom Wolfe
"Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies." — Dario Argento
"Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness." — Max Baucus
"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out." — Robert Collier
"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope." — Baruch Spinoza
"I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!" — Jenny Agutter
"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity." — Og Mandino
"The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God." — Charles Hodge
"I call architecture frozen music." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad." — Jack Nicholson
"I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks." — Sue Grafton
"As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date." — Nora Ephron
"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." — Ronald Reagan
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder." — John Ruskin
"God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness." — Aldous Huxley
"My imagination is my polestar I steer by that." — Clive Barker
"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes." — Hugh Prather
"I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know." — John Mayer
"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs." — Alphonse de Lamartine
"Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success." — Martha Stewart
"The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers." — Maggie Q
"It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well." — Rene Descartes
"I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof." — Rodney Dangerfield
"The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion." — Lytton Strachey
"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it." — Albert Camus
"What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job." — Diane Kruger
"And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms." — Wole Soyinka
"I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating." — Rachel McAdams
"I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking." — Jan Brewer
"So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad." — Ron Perlman
"Forgiveness is God's command." — Martin Luther
"Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west." — Azar Nafisi
"In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world." — Bob Brown
"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities." — Walter Scott
"Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done." — Julian Castro
"I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments." — Sheryl Sandberg
"I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited." — Russell Means
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." — Louis Pasteur
"I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort." — Calvin Coolidge
"A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun." — Stone Gossard
"After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land." — Barack Obama
"The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing." — Edward Tufte
"We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business." — Jeff Bezos
"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments." — Henry Ward Beecher
"I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress." — Natasha Henstridge
"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice." — Lillian Hellman
"But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines." — Liam Neeson
"Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too." — Dave Matthews
"When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time." — Prince William
"I would hope everyone would be a feminist." — Mia Wasikowska
"A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation." — Thomas Francis Meagher
"I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music." — Katy Perry
"I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa." — Candice Swanepoel
"I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace." — Mahatma Gandhi
"If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard." — Nathan Deal
"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay." — Steve Jobs
"I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth." — Peter Steele
"What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive." — Jay Alan Sekulow
"One often makes music to supplement one's world." — Brian Eno
"When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing." — Michael Jordan
"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one." — Henry Ford
"I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit." — Kevin McKidd
"Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food." — Bobby Flay
"I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits." — Sherri Shepherd
"Without music, life would be a mistake." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm." — William Cowper
"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes." — Avicenna
"I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed." — Eva Longoria
"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty." — Georgia O'Keeffe
"My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid." — Quentin Tarantino
"I have to make it my job to be careful with my family." — Liam Neeson
"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control." — Javier Bardem
"Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian." — Kirk Cameron
"Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature." — Camille Paglia
"And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education." — Sam Donaldson
"The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge." — William Bligh
"By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion." — Jessica Savitch
"Happiness is the natural flower of duty." — Phillips Brooks
"I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one." — Lady Gaga
"Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy." — Alistair Darling
"Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power." — Jean Paul
"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality." — Rowan D. Williams
"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse." — Sophocles
"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel." — Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." — Maya Angelou
"I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with." — Stephen Dorff
"I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric." — Dick Gregory
"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head." — Emil Zatopek
"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them." — John Henry Newman
"On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships." — Eberhard Weber
"I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation." — Jenny Eclair
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable." — Carl Jung
"What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man." — Stephen Greenblatt
"Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it." — David Duchovny
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship." — Mao Zedong
"It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration." — Roger Ebert
"Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology." — Robert Rodriguez
"They that have lived a single day have lived an age." — Jean de la Bruyere
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort." — Sydney Smith
"I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic." — Studs Terkel
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." — Oscar Wilde
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings." — Hodding Carter
"The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year." — Johnny Vegas
"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force." — Lech Walesa
"Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials." — Dan Savage
"You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me." — Peter Shaffer
"You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is." — Johnny Vegas
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else." — Les Brown
"It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova." — Joey Santiago
"Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again." — Carl Lewis
"Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty." — Helen Rowland
"Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it." — Nicki Minaj
"I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed." — Karl Lagerfeld
"If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it." — Jon Brion
"My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special he's still one of my favorite writers." — Andre Dubus III
"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion." — Edmond de Goncourt
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life." — Marion Jones
"I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'" — Miles Teller
"Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen." — Conan O'Brien
"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age." — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack." — Jodi Picoult
"It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it." — Travis Barker
"History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom." — Daisaku Ikeda
"We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government." — Zachary Quinto
"Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps." — Patricia Ireland
"I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing." — Lou Gerstner
"Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful." — Rowan Atkinson
"First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives." — Robert Crais
"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." — Samuel Butler
"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it." — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you." — Marilyn Monroe
"The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books." — Stephane Mallarme
"I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight." — Tammy Baldwin
"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men." — W. E. B. Du Bois
"And know that I am with you always yes, to the end of time." — Jesus Christ
"My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires." — Hugh Jackman
"I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident." — Patricia Highsmith
"Men are what their mothers made them." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness." — Norman Spinrad
"It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly." — William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
"God continues to work miracles in my life." — Willie Aames
"That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse." — James M. Barrie
"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with." — Robert Staughton Lynd
"Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent." — Sheryl Sandberg
"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self." — B. R. Ambedkar
"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up." — Billie Holiday
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." — Winston Churchill
"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." — Tom Stoppard
"It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim." — Dick Wolf
"A global democracy works only when countries trust one another." — Armstrong Williams
"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." — Robert Moog
"When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going." — Jeff Bridges
"There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny." — Larry David
"I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning." — Jonathan Davis
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself." — Sidney Lanier
"Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one." — Glenn Beck
"Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation." — Orison Swett Marden
"Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized." — Dhani Harrison
"I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death." — Jack Kevorkian
"Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film." — Yahoo Serious
"In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty." — John Strachan
"I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son." — Jai Rodriguez
"I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger." — Jon Crosby
"I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience what things are funny and not." — Keenen Ivory Wayans
"The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities." — Pat Metheny
"It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me." — Jodie Foster
"I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh." — Muhammad Yunus
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either." — Robert Graves
"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real." — Rabindranath Tagore
"Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience." — M. Scott Peck
"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free." — Wendell Berry
"You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you." — Olympia Dukakis
"But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it." — John Anderson
"There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system it could be a lot of different things." — Jensen Ackles
"To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on." — Dave Pelzer
"I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal." — Todd McFarlane
"I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more." — Jenna Dewan
"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty." — Mason Cooley
"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time." — William Shakespeare
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being." — Oscar Wilde
"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear." — Niccolo Machiavelli
"Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth." — John Lyly
"For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning." — Jack Klugman
"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug." — Helen Keller
"Love does not dominate it cultivates." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare." — Fred Allen
"Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination." — Danny Boyle
"It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad." — Trisha Yearwood
"The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate." — Steve Case
"You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time." — Rob McKenna
"Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation." — James Allen
"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends." — Samuel Pepys
"By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway." — Ace Frehley
"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns." — Thomas Moore
"If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up." — Mike Singletary
"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action." — Mother Teresa
"I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure." — Chen Shui-bian
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea." — Honore de Balzac
"When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance." — Joel Osteen
"One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality." — J. J. Abrams
"I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed." — Al Gore
"Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves." — Karl Kraus
"My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be." — Ellen Pompeo
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." — Albert Einstein
"I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society." — Yani Tseng
"I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad." — Thomas Jefferson
"I want to come across as a positive person." — Greta Scacchi
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." — Derek Bok
"You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge." — Yuri Milner
"But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing." — Geddy Lee
"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn." — Emily Dickinson
"Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place." — James Blake
"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work." — Pearl Bailey
"When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople." — Jenson Button
"When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate." — Brian Ferneyhough
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." — John Lennon
"He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech." — John Colville
"It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont." — Trey Anastasio
"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner." — Walt Disney
"Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply." — Steve Jobs
"President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch." — Lindsey Graham
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." — Benjamin Disraeli
"I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters." — Conrad Hall
"I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end." — Brad Renfro
"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." — Robert Green Ingersoll
"I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that." — Roberto Cavalli
"I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups." — Rooney Mara
"Patience is the secret to good food." — Gail Simmons
"This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me." — Isabel Allende
"My ideal travel companions are my family." — Pharrell Williams
"I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength." — Etty Hillesum
"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it." — Albert Camus
"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness." — Aristotle
"My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world." — Wynonna Judd
"People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices." — Katy Perry
"I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy." — Al Gore
"Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination." — Richard Reeves
"All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change." — Cate Blanchett
"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality." — Harold S. Geneen
"A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding." — Douglas MacArthur
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more." — George Byron
"I'm not really in the excuse business." — Bill Parcells
"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant." — Constance Baker Motley
"Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove." — Dean Inge
"Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are." — Julio Cortazar
"People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience." — Mikhail Baryshnikov
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." — Arthur Rubinstein
"My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent." — Ed Helms
"I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded." — Elizabeth Moss
"The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history." — Mao Zedong
"NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people." — Neil Armstrong
"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient." — Henry Ward Beecher
"I aim for a lifetime full of movies." — Salma Hayek
"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?" — Honore de Balzac
"Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way." — Padma Lakshmi
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness." — Frank Gehry
"I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games." — Jackie Chan
"In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be." — Alberto Moravia
"All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it." — Samuel Johnson
"There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best." — Rickie Lee Jones
"Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books." — Jerry Saltz
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." — Viktor E. Frankl
"I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything." — Eminem
"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love." — Euripides
"People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education." — Nina Bawden
"I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions." — Jeff Bridges
"Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do." — Diana Lopez
"Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it." — Mitt Romney
"Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile." — Gerald Massey
"In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept." — Quintilian
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." — Paul Valery
"All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world." — Victor Cousin
"The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise." — Mia Love
"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!" — Homer
"According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts." — Ferdinand Mount
"Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit." — Thomas Huxley
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." — Thomas Jefferson
"I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion." — Zona Gale
"I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman." — Bill Frist
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." — Bruce Lee
"I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do." — Teena Marie
"The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food." — Rob Mariano
"The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side." — Don Johnson
"Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all." — Brian Tracy
"All men's gains are the fruit of venturing." — Herodotus
"Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'" — Michael N. Castle
"I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press." — Eric Clapton
"I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole." — Kevin Mitnick
"Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best." — Robert H. Austin
"I love music." — Shania Twain
"Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective." — Jerry Saltz
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for." — Will Rogers
"They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls." — Laura Bush
"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men." — Jane Addams
"I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to." — Gillian Flynn
"I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid." — Rand Paul
"Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies." — Saxby Chambliss
"The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy." — Kamisese Mara
"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people." — Lydia Sigourney
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." — Octavia Butler
"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions." — Philip Emeagwali
"Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home." — Liu Wen
"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me." — John Donne
"Success should always be just beyond your grasp." — William Shatner
"I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today." — Tony Bennett